Some initial values capriciously provide very large prime fixed-points. This behavior is illustrated in A084319 for initial value n=91.

Unlike the related home primes A037274, the trajectory of numbers in this procedure is not strictly increasing. Of the 8770 numbers < 10000 that have trajectories (that is, that are neither 1 nor prime) 3727 decrease at least once before reaching 30 digits. A sequence with no decreases is twice as likely to not terminate before 30 digits (10.0%) as one that has at least one decrease (4.8%). - Christian N. K. Anderson, May 04 2013